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Fix in Music Library Neneh Cherry interview: 'I feel like I’ve woken up' - Telegraph Rock and Pop Features Neneh Cherry interview: 'I feel like I’ve woken up' Singer Neneh Cherry, who releases her first album in 16 years later this month, feels like she has woken up from a weird sleep, she tells Rob Hughes . Neneh Cherry: 'I feel like I’ve woken up' Photo: Rex Features By Rob Hughes 4:50PM BST 06 Jun 2012 The afternoon sun is pouring through the window of her publicist’s office in east London, where Neneh Cherry is suitably aglow. At 48 and dressed top-to-toe in black, she still looks amazing, all high cheekbones and hair in a frizz. Not that much different, in fact, from when she first lit up the charts in the late Eighties with Raw Like Sushi, the million-selling album that produced the hit singles Buffalo Stance and Manchild, and which expertly captured the emergent club culture of hip-hop and rap.

Or when 7 Seconds, her searingly emotive duet with Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour, became a global monster in the summer of 1994. But little has been heard of her since. Her last solo LP was Man, in 1996. And while there have been a couple of albums with cirKus, a collective featuring her daughter Tyson and husband Cameron McVey (aka Booga Bear), Cherry’s recorded activity has largely been consigned to the odd guest spot on other artists’ records, the most high-profile being Gorillaz’ Demon Days. Which makes it all the more cause for celebration that she’s finally back. And in typically uncompromising mood to boot. The Cherry Thing, 50-odd minutes of pulsating avant-jazz that contorts songs by the Stooges, MF Doom, Suicide, Ornette Coleman and more into delirious new shapes, is the result of an encounter with Nordic trio the Thing. “I feel like I’ve woken up,” she laughs. “It’s like I’ve been in a weird sleep for a long time and now I’m awake.

It felt like it was time.” Related Articles Peter Maxwell Davies: The old rebel has a new cause 06 Jun 2012 Paloma Faith: "Prince made me feel I had the potential to be better and gave me the impetus to up my game" 06 Jun 2012 There’s a deeper impulse to all this than just a bunch of simpatico musicians, though. The Thing first formed in 2000 to play the music of Don Cherry, the late US jazz trumpeter from whose 1967 piece they took their name and who continues to be their chief source of inspiration. He also happened to be Neneh’s stepfather. What’s more, The Cherry Thing includes a new version of one of Don’s old tunes, Golden Heart. It’s one of the high points of the set. “I don’t think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it,” explains Neneh. “With Golden Heart I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like.

Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun’s coming up. An impression of sound and colour, rather than a conventional song.” It’s a vivid analogy that conjures up visions of Cherry’s own upbringing. As the daughter of a Swedish artist mother and an African percussionist, with Don entering her life early when her parents split, Neneh’s childhood was very much a peripatetic one. When she wasn’t in Sweden or Sierra Leone, Cherry would be in LA or New York, or else on the road with her stepdad and his famous pals. One of her earliest memories is sitting on Miles Davis’s lap backstage in Paris when she was four. “People like that were just friends of the family, uncles and aunts that we’d see when we’d be out walking with Don around Manhattan. We’d always be calling in at Ornette [Coleman]’s house, so it was just everyday life. The world you grow up in becomes your foundation and your security. “When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

Don and my mother Moki called it the Organic Music Theatre, an open floor for a nucleus of musicians who were moving in and out. One summer we did a whole tour where we just camped between gigs. We had our grandparents’ old tent and me and Eagle-Eye had pet turtles. Everything was connected, it was a whole life stage.” The importance of family is something that’s sustained Cherry throughout her career, both publicly and privately. One of the reasons for her prolonged absence was her devotion to bringing up her children, while perhaps her most defining TV moment came when she performed Buffalo Stance on Top of the Pops while seven months pregnant, her sizeable bump covered in tight black Lycra. Homebrew, 1992’s hugely underrated follow-up to Raw Like Sushi – Cherry favoured rock and sassy soul grooves over the expected rap-hop – was made in the Swedish schoolhouse where she grew up. Her other half is also her co-songwriter and producer, while Don Cherry recorded with both of Neneh’s earliest bands: post-punk provocateurs Rip Rig & Panic and the Slits.

“Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me and I’ve always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved me for when I suddenly became really successful later on. So even when my head’s been spinning like a banshee, my feet still feel held down to the ground.” Not that success seems to have ever bothered her much. In 1990 Cherry won two Brit Awards and promptly melted one down into jewellery. “I gave a piece to Jazzie B of Soul II Soul,” she reasons with a chuckle, “because I thought he should’ve got a Brit. Neither Buffalo Stance nor Manchild got to number one, but Back to Life was there for 10 weeks or something. It was huge!” All of which may explain the relatively low-profile return with the Thing. There is, she tells me, a solo album in the works, too, though she’s loth to elaborate. Other than “it’s a different trip to The Cherry Thing. I suppose there’s a connection, but my solo record will be more pop, without being mainstream.” Whatever the medium, she’s clearly got the taste for it again.

“You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like Raw Like Sushi, I think I was very much in the right place at the right time. But it was almost a weird domino effect, where one thing led to another. Whereas now I feel more like I’m achieving and thinking about what I want. I’m hungry for it and there’s a part of me that feels like I’ve just started. It’s going to be interesting to roll it out there again.” 'The Cherry Thing’ (Smalltown Supersound) is out on June 18 Rare and Obscure Music: Neneh Cherry Rare and Obscure Music Music you've never heard….'til now! A blog of rare, hardly-heard or remembered pop, hip-hop, R&B, freestyle and dance music from the 80s and 90s. From one-hit wonders to no-hit wonders, this blog has it all!!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Neneh Cherry Neneh Cherry (born Neneh Mariann Karlsson on March 10, 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a female singer\rapper. Nenah comes from a musical, creative family and even her half-brother is musician Eagle-Eye Cherry. At the age of 14, she dropped out of school and joined a punk band called The Cherries. She moved through several various bands. Nenah began her solo career with a protest song called, "Stop the War." In 1987, she was featured on English music group, The The's song, "Slow Train to Dawn" which was moderately successful in the UK and Australia. In May of 1989, Neneh released her debut album, "Raw Like Sushi" which peaked at #40 on the Billboard 200 and #62 on Billboard's R&B Albums chart. The album went Gold in Canada, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but it only charted at #3 in her native Sweden.

Neneh's first single and biggest hit to date "Buffalo Stance" became her big international breakthrough hit song. The song topped the charts in Sweden and the Netherlands. In the UK, it peaked at #3 on the UK Singles chart. In the US, the song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped Billboard's dance charts, peaked at #16 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart and #30 on Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart, staying on the chart for 11 weeks. Neneh notably performed "Buffalo Stance" live on "Top of the Pops" when she was 8 months pregnant which caused controversy because of the gyrating choreography while she was performing the song. The second single from the album, "Manchild" peaked at #5 on the UK Singles chart, but failed to chart at all in the US. Internationally, the song was moderately successful.

Her third single from the album, "Kisses on the Wind" became another US hit for her, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #9 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music\Maxi-Singles Sales chart, and #19 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music\Club Play chart. The song managed to peak at #20 on the UK Singles chart. Internationally, the song was moderately successful. The last two singles, "Heart" and "Inna City Mamma" were moderately successful internationally, but not so much in the US. In 1990, Neneh was featured on the AIDS benefit compliation album, "Red Hot + Blue" with a cover of Cole Porter's song, "I've Got You Under My Skin." The song peaked at #25 on the UK Singles chart. Neneh was nominated for a Grammy in 1990 for "Best New Artist," but she lost out to Milli Vanilli (who later got their Grammy revoked).

She won the Brit Award for her debut, "Raw Like Sushi" and Soul II Soul member Jazzie B is quoted, saying, "Neneh smashed her Brit Award in half and gave Soul II Soul a piece of the trophy." She worked as an arranger on Massive Attack's album, "Blue Lines." In 1991, Neneh returned to England to work on her sophomore album "Homebrew" which was released in October of 1992. The album didn't reach the same success as her debut album, but it received critical acclaim. The first single "Money Love" peaked at #23 on the UK Singles chart. The song was moderately successful in New Zealand and Australia. The second single "Move With Me" failed to chart at all in the UK, the US, or anywhere else internationally. The third single "Buddy X" peaked at #35 on the UK Singles chart.

In the US, the song peaked at #43 on the Billboard Hot 100, #22 on Billboard's Top 40 Mainstream chart, #29 on Billboard's Rhythmic Top 40 chart and #96 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart, staying on the chart for 2 weeks. The song managed to peak at #35 in the UK and #23 in the Netherlands. The last single, "Trout" featuring REM's Michael Stipe managed to peak at #2 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was popular on college radio. In 1994, Neneh was featured on musician Youssou N'Dour on the song "7 Seconds" which managed to peak at #3 on the UK Singles chart, #98 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in France, the song peaked at #1 and stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. The song was moderately successful internationally. The song was certified Gold in Austria, France, Germany, and Switzerland. It remained on the charts for nearly half a year and Neneh was nominated for a Grammy in 1994 for the duet.

At the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards, it won "Best Song." A year later in 1995, Neneh was featured on the number-one UK single "Love Can Build a Bridge" (a cover version of the Judds' Top Five country hit) with musicians Cher, the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde, and singer\guitarist Eric Clapton. The song was chosen for 1995's official Comic Relief single. In September of 1996, Neneh released her third album to date "Man" which peaked at #16 in the UK, #22 in Sweden, #19 in Norway, #4 in France, and #5 in Switzerland and Australia. The album also managed to peak at #187 in the US on the Billboard 200. She released a remix version of the album in 1997 called "Neneh Cherry Remixes." The single "Kootchi" peaked at #38 on the UK Singles chart. Internationally elsewhere, the song failed to chart at all.

Another single "Feel It" peaked at #68 on the UK Singles chart and another one, "Woman" failed to chart at all. She released a cover version of Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man." It's unknown how or if it charted at all. In 2006, Neneh announced the formation of a new band called, cirKus which includes herself, her husband, her daughter Tyson and her daughter's boyfriend. They have toured extensively in small venues in Europe with a single performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival in July of 2006 and a few dates in Brazil back in 2008 & they have released two albums. In April of 2007, Neneh presented a 6-part cooking show called "Neneh and Andi: Dish it Up" with her good friend, Andrea Oliver for the BBC2 channel. These days, Neneh continues to be active in the music business, working on various projects.

To see the music video for "Buffalo Stance," go to: Cherrypicking With Neneh Cherry: Singer Breaks Down 7 Pivotal Tracks | SPIN Cherrypicking With Neneh Cherry: Singer Breaks Down 7 Pivotal Tracks The "7 Seconds" star takes us beyond "Buffalo Stance" Melissa Giannini // June 19, 2012 Share < br />this article: While most fans associate Neneh Cherry with her 1988 international pop hit “Buffalo Stance,” the singer’s past reads like an underground-punk guidebook: Raised on a commune in 1960s Sweden by an artist mother and jazz-luminary stepfather (Don Cherry), she spent her teens and early twenties ripping it up with Rip Rig + Panic and the Slits and dancing in Big Audio Dynamite videos . And in the early ’90s, in between putting out a couple more hits (“Trout” with Michael Stipe and “7 Seconds” with Youssou N’Dour), Cherry maintained a close alignment with the Bristol trip-hop scene.

Which makes The Cherry Thing, her recent album-length collaboration with European jazz trio the Thing — a collection of wildly diverse covers (e.g., Suicide, MF Doom, The Stooges) — not all that surprising. “I was completely rolled over by what [the Thing] were doing with a sound that can be classified as free jazz — but to me it was like punk; it was just a life force to be reckoned with,” Cherry says. In honor of the new record, which drops June 19 and is Neneh’s first solo outing in 16 years — and the fact that it gave us, and her, a case of déjà vu (“It’s like I’m constantly being reborn and dying at the same time,” she says), we’ve assembled a list of seven of our favorite Neneh Cherry songs, which, of course, includes “7 Seconds.” 1.

“You’re My Kind of Climate” (with Rip Rig + Panic, 1982) Rip Rig + Panic (named after an album by jazz saxophonist Roland Kirk) were short-lived (’81-’83) but superfun as evidenced by this rambunctious 1982 guest appearance on the cult British sitcom The Young Ones. The new songs on The Cherry Thing have a similar charge: “We didn’t need to talk or think too much about what we were going to do, Cherry says. “We were almost allergic to that—there was a kind of urgency and a definite, definite feeling that we were meant to be together.” Three RR+P members regrouped in 1985 as Float Up CP, but put out just one album, Kill Me in the Morning, but this is supposed to be a party! 2. “Slow Train to Dawn” (with The The, 1986) Sax figures heavily here too, but Cherry’s back-up singing, while she was tied to train tracks no less, is where the heart of this song lives.

Apparently, vocalist Matt Johnson had gone through 50 or 60 demo tapes to find the female half of this duet when he came upon a Float Up CP tape. Her contribution caught the ear of the industry, and this song put her on the path to solo stardom. 3. “Buffalo Stance” (from Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi, 1989) The song originated as a B-side to Morgan McVey’s “Looking Good Diving.” At some point, Bomb the Bass’ Tim Simenon heard it and approached Cherry about redoing the track for her debut solo album. The new version, “Buffalo Stance,” included samples from Malcolm McLaren’s classic Bristol hip-hop track “Buffalo Gals” (itself a riff on the traditional American song of the same name) and referenced stylist Ray Petri’s Buffalo collective , of which Cherry was a member. You could spend hours on sites that deconstruct the song , but maybe it’s best to start with this video of a saucy (and seven-months pregnant!) Cherry performing the song on Top of the Pops in 1988. “I didn’t invent it,” Cherry says, of child-bearing.

“Women have been doing this since forever.” 4. “Trout” (with Michael Stipe, from Homebrew, 1992) “We were making Homebrew and ‘Losing My Religion’ was out and we just felt, wouldn’t it be amazing to collaborate?” Cherry says about the duo’s early-’90s college-radio staple. The idea for the collaboration led her to visit Athens, Georgia, for the first time. “I’d never been down to the South before,” Cherry says. “I was shitting myself. But it was amazing, and we had a great time doing that track. [Stipe] has the best laugh of anyone I know. I often think about his laugh and I feel instantly much better about life, always.” 5. “7 Seconds” single (with Youssou N’Dour, 1994) “Youssou played in my family home in Sweden, when he was 18, so we had that connection,” Cherry says. “My brother was living in Brooklyn, and we were using his little studio in his bedroom.

Cameron [McVey, Cherry’s husband and producer] had started writing the chorus, and we left these spaces for Youssou — we were just kind of sketching away as we do, and Youssou came on the second day and just blew it into another dimension with his scales and the way he sings. It just made it soar. It was fascinating afterwards, seeing where that song went. It was the No. 1 track for weeks in France. But obviously, we did consciously want to use the languages that we had with us, the French, the Wolof, the English. Bono from U2 asked me once what ‘7 Seconds’ means, and he was like, ‘Me and my wife decided that that’s how long it takes to conceive [laughs].’ I don’t know. It sounded good. I like numbers. I think it’s about tolerance and patience.” 6. “Go Go Go (This Is It)” (with Rip Rig + Panic, 1981) and 7.

“Too Tough to Die” (from The Cherry Thing, 2012) “The Martina Topley-Bird track, that was the first thing we did, and we did one take,” Cherry says of the latter song. “I really felt like, oh my god, I’m here now, but I was back to the first track I did with Rip Rig + Panic, and it was a kind of unhinged, slightly bluesy, juke-joint-but-not kind of thing. It was just so weird. I think I was 16 when I did that. And now I’m standing here doing ‘Too Tough to Die.’ I like that feeling. You’re sort of being freed.” Whatever happened to Neneh Cherry? Follow DL on Whatever happened to Neneh Cherry? RAW LIKE SUSHI was one of the best albums of the '80s. I'm thinking Virgin lost interest in her after signing Janet. She was gorgeous! reply 53 06/16/2012 I didn't appreciate her inappropriate interjection of the term "jazz piano" at uncalled for places during interviews. by Buffalo Stance I thought she was awful and completely talent free!

Oh well, to each his own. by Buffalo Stance reply 3 03/01/2012 I think she is one of those women like Lauryn Hill or Sade who is content to be raising babies with her man, smoking lots of 'stuff' and still making music but not for public consumption. At least Sade does a tour/album ever 10 years or so and rakes in shedloads of money, she is very rich. Trust Nenah is too ... I loved those videos and catchy songs of hers, so very mid 80s. by Buffalo Stance reply 4 03/01/2012 The follow up CD was actually very good, some awesome tracks on it. However, the duet with Michael Stipe, in which he RAPS, is to be avoided at all costs. by Buffalo Stance reply 5 03/02/2012 Yeah HOMEBREW is even better than RAW LIKE SUSHI. I think she had some label trouble and also suffered from lyme disease which derailed the career.

by Buffalo Stance reply 31 03/02/2012 She sort of burst onto the scene. She was on a concert tour and then disappeared with the reason that she had Lyme Disease. The story in the industry was that she was tremendously bad in concert and the company wanted time to groom her. There was a documentary about her years back and they showed some footage of the ill-fated tour and she really appeared to have very little talent. by Buffalo Stance reply 32 03/02/2012 I'm a bi woman who came out in the '80s, and I remember Neneh Cherry as a babe, with an intelligent, staunch and sexy vibe. My memory is that she openly identified as bi back then, and it seemed genuine, rather than a trendy affectation. by Buffalo Stance [quote]Fuck her--she had the nerve to slag off Kylie Minogue as a no-talent Barbie. Well, that is true. reply 39 03/03/2012 I used to be convinced that the 2 backing dancers in the Buffalo Stance video were The Reynolds Girls.

Looking back it's quite amazing how all of her songs had such a strong social message although at the time I didn't appreciate it. I've Got You Under My Skin was the lead single from the Red Hot & Blue project in the UK and even though I kind of knew what it was about, aged 15, I still didn't get it like I do as an eldergay. by Buffalo Stance Neneh Cherry | Biography & History | AllMusic google+ Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny The stepdaughter of jazz trailblazer Don Cherry , vocalist Neneh Cherry forged her own groundbreaking blend of pop, dance, hip-hop, and R&B, presaging the emergence of both alternative rap and trip-hop. She was born Neneh Mariann Karlssson on March 10, 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of West African percussionist Ahmadu Jah and artist Moki Cherry . Raised by her mother and her trumpeter stepfather in both Stockholm and New York City, Cherry dropped out of school at age 14, and in 1980 she relocated to London to sing with the punk group the Cherries .

Following brief flings with the Slits and the Nails , she joined the experimental funk/post-punk outfit Rip Rig + Panic , and appeared on the group's albums God (1981), I Am Cold (1982), and Attitude (1983). When the band broke up, Cherry remained with one of the spinoff groups, Float Up CP , and led them through one album, 1986's Kill Me in the Morning . The band proved short-lived, however, and Cherry began rapping in a London club, where she earned the attention of a talent scout who signed her to a solo contract. Her first single, "Stop the War," railed against the invasion of the Falkland Islands. After attracting some notice singing backup on the The 's "Slow Train to Dawn" single, she became romantically and professionally involved with composer and musician Cameron McVey , who, under the alias Booga Bear , wrote much of the material that would comprise Cherry 's 1989 debut LP, Raw Like Sushi .

One song McVey did not write was "Buffalo Stance," the album's breakthrough single; originally tossed off as a B-side by McVey 's mid-'80s pop group Morgan/McVey , Cherry 's version was an international smash that neatly summarized the album's eclectic fusion of pop smarts and hip-hop energy. A pair of hits -- the eerie "Manchild" and "Kisses on the Wind" -- followed, but shortly after the record's release Cherry was sidelined with Lyme disease. Apart from a cover of Cole Porter 's "I've Got You Under My Skin" for the 1990 Red Hot + Blue benefit album, she remained silent until 1992's Homebrew . A more subdued collection than Raw Like Sushi , it featured cameos from Gang Starr , as well as R.E.M. 's Michael Stipe . Some writing and production assistance came from Geoff Barrow , who layered the track "Somedays" with the same distinct trip-hop glaze he later perfected with Portishead .

While the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, Cherry returned to the charts in 1994 duetting with Youssou N'Dour on the global hit "Seven Seconds." After another layoff spent raising her children, she resurfaced with the atmospheric Man in 1996. A remix version of the album, simply titled Remixes , followed in 1998. Family life became a priority once again, with some guest appearances -- including the 1998 single "Walk Into this Room" with Live 's Edward Kowalczyk , and a guest spot on Peter Gabriel 's 2000 album OVO -- and work with her husband Burt Ford 's band cirKus , carrying her into the new millennium. She returned in 2012 with The Cherry Thing , an album in which she fronted the Thing , the experimental Scandinavian jazz trio whose founding mission was to play her stepfather's music. In 2013, Cherry collaborated with London duo RocketNumberNine on their album MeYouWeYou . She also joined them to perform the entire album at the Manchester International Festival in July 2013.

The following year, she released her long-awaited fourth proper studio album, Blank Project . Produced by Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet ) and recorded with RocketNumberNine and executive producer Booga Bear , it also featured an appearance from Swedish artist Robyn .

Neneh Cherry – 3 Studio Albums + Single [1989-1996] (4CD) [FLAC] | Lossless Albums Download Neneh Cherry – 3 Studio Albums + Single [1989-1996] (4CD) [FLAC] Lossless Albums Download > Uncategorized > Neneh Cherry – 3 Studio Albums + Single [1989-1996] (4CD) [FLAC] Neneh Cherry – 3 Studio Albums + Single [1989-1996] (4CD) [FLAC] EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.36 Gb (incl 5%) | Scans included Genre: Hip Hop, Alternative Hip Hop, R&B, Trip Hop, Downtempo, Dance Pop | Time: 02:55:16 Neneh Mariann Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, and occasional DJ and broadcaster. Blending hip hop with other influences, Cherry experienced mainstream success with several of her recordings. Collection includes solo studio albums and collaboration single ’7 Seconds’.

The stepdaughter of jazz trailblazer Don Cherry, vocalist Neneh Cherry forged her own groundbreaking blend of pop, dance, and hip-hop, presaging the emergence of both alternative rap and trip-hop. She was born Neneh Mariann Karlssson on March 10, 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of West African percussionist Amadu Jah and artist Moki Cherry. Raised by her mother and her trumpeter stepfather in both Stockholm and New York City, Cherry dropped out of school at age 14, and in 1980 she relocated to London to sing with the punk group the Cherries. Following brief flings with the Slits and the Nails, she joined the experimental funk outfit Rip Rig + Panic, and appeared on the group’s albums God (1981), I Am Cold (1982), and Attitude (1983). When the band broke up, Cherry remained with one of the spinoff groups, Float Up CP, and led them through one album, 1986′s Kill Me in the Morning.

The band proved short-lived, however, and Cherry began rapping in a London club, where she earned the attention of a talent scout who signed her to a solo contract. Her first single, “Stop the War,” railed against the invasion of the Falkland Islands. After attracting some notice singing backup on the The’s “Slow Train to Dawn” single, she became romantically and professionally involved with composer and musician Cameron McVey, who, under the alias Booga Bear, wrote much of the material that would comprise Cherry’s 1989 debut LP, Raw Like Sushi. One song McVey did not write was “Buffalo Stance,” the album’s breakthrough single; originally tossed off as a B-side by the mid-’80s pop group Morgan McVey, Cherry’s cover was an international smash that neatly summarized the album’s eclectic fusion of pop smarts and hip-hop energy.

A pair of hits — the eerie “Manchild” and “Kisses on the Wind” — followed, but shortly after the record’s release Cherry was sidelined with Lyme disease, and apart from a cover of Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” for the 1990 Red Hot + Blue benefit album, she remained silent until 1992′s Homebrew. A more subdued collection than Raw Like Sushi, it featured cameos from Gang Starr and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, as well as writing and production assistance from Geoff Barrow, who layered the track “Somedays” with the same distinct trip-hop glaze he later perfected as half of the duo Portishead. While the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor, Cherry returned to the charts in 1994 duetting with Youssou N’Dour on the global hit “Seven Seconds.” After another lengthy layoff spent raising her children, she resurfaced with the atmospheric Man in 1996.

A remix version of the album, simply titled Remixes, would follow in 1998; then family life became a priority once again, with some guest appearances (including the 1998 single “Walk into this Room” with Live’s Edward Kowalczyk and a guest spot on Peter Gabriel’s 2000 album OVO) and work with her husband Burt Ford band’s Cirkus carrying her into the new millennium. She returned in 2012 with The Cherry Thing, an album in which she fronted the Thing, the experimental Scandinavian jazz trio whose founding mission was to play her stepfather’s music.

Biography by Jason Ankeny, Allmusic.com EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 485 Mb (incl 5%) Label: Virgin, Circa | # 0777 7 86116 2 2, CIRCD 8 | Time: 01:02:18 | Scans included Those arguing that the most individualistic R&B and dance music of the late ’80s and early to mid-’90s came out of Britain could point to Neneh Cherry’s unconventional Raw Like Sushi as a shining example. An unorthodox and brilliantly daring blend of R&B, rap, pop, and dance music, Sushi enjoyed little exposure on America’s conservative urban contemporary radio formats, but was a definite underground hit. Full of personality, the singer/rapper is as thought-provoking as she is witty and humorous when addressing relationships and taking aim at less-than-kosher behavior of males and females alike.

Macho homeboys and Casanovas take a pounding on “So Here I Come” and the hit “Buffalo Stance,” while women who are shallow, cold-hearted, or materialistic get lambasted on “Phoney Ladies,” “Heart,” and “Inna City Mamma.” Cherry’s idealism comes through loud and clear on “The Next Generation,” a plea to take responsibility for one’s sexual actions and give children the respect and attention they deserve. Review by Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com Tracklist: 10. So Here I Come (04:03) 11. My Bitch (05:27) 12. Heart (It’s A Demo) (04:52) 13. Buffalo Stance (Sukka Mix) (05:21) 14.

Manchild (The Old School Mix) (05:31) Homebrew (1992) EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb (incl 5%) Label: Circa | # CIRCD 25, 0777 7 86516 2 8 | Time: 00:42:43 | Scans included Neneh Cherry doesn’t get into the studio nearly often enough. Three years passed before the British singer/rapper came out with a second album. Thankfully, she more than lived up to the tremendous promise of Raw Like Sushi on the equally magnificent and risk-taking Homebrew. Cherry shows no signs of the dreaded sophomore slump — everything on the CD is a gem. She triumphs with a seamless and unorthodox blend of hip-hop, R&B, dance music, and pop, and on “Money Love” and “Trout,” the presence of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe brings rock to the eclectic mix. As humorous as Cherry can be, her reflections on relationships and social issues are often quite pointed.

While “Money Love” decries the evils of materialism, the moving “I Ain’t Gone Under Yet” describes an inner-city woman’s determination not to be brought down by the poverty and drugs that surround her. And “Twisted” is about keeping yourself sane in a world gone insane. Unfortunately, Homebrew wasn’t the commercial breakthrough Cherry was more than deserving of. Review by Alex Henderson, Allmusic.com Tracklist: 08. Trout (Featuring Michael Stipe) (05:04) 09. Peace In Mind (05:35) 10.

Red Paint (05:28) Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry ‎– 7 Seconds (1994) EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 209 Mb (incl 5%) | Mp3 (CBR320/Stereo) ~ 121 Mb (incl 5%) Label: Chaos/Columbia | # 660254 2 | Time: 00:21:40 | Scans included “7 Seconds” is a song composed by Youssou N’Dour, Neneh Cherry, Cameron McVey and Jonathan Sharp, released in 1994 as a single performed by Youssou N’Dour and Neneh Cherry. It reached the top three in various countries including the United Kingdom, France,Portugal, Germany, Italy, Australia, Russia and Poland. The single stayed at #1 for 16 consecutive weeks on the French Singles Chart, which was the record of the most weeks at the top at the time. The song also appeared on N’Dour’s album The Guide (Wommat), released shortly after the single.

In 1996, it was included on Neneh Cherry’s album Man. Tracklist: 03. 7 Seconds (R&B To The Hip Hop Drop Mix) (06:24) 04. 7 Seconds (Dub Mix) (06:07) Man (1996) EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 363 Mb (incl 5%) Label: Virgin, Circa | # 7243 8 41982 2 0, 8419822 | Time: 00:48:33 | Scans included Neneh Cherry, the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter and “rapstress” who burst onto the scene in 1989 with the mega-hit “Buffalo Stance,” did not even see the release of her third album, Man, in the United States. This set differs from her previous efforts in that there is absolutely no rap to be found anywhere on the disc, and all of the songs are slow-burning, midtempo alt-rock numbers, as opposed to anything remotely resembling dance or rap (though there are some hip-hop styled beats).

There are really no immediate hits on this album, although it includes the international chart-topping duet with Youssou N’Dour, “7 Seconds,” as well as several other highlights, including “Woman,” “Hornbeam,” and “Everything.” Also included here is a tribute cover she recorded of Marvin Gaye’s “Trouble Man.” The album is a high-quality collection of alt-rock womens’ anthems, at times bluesy, at times folksy, and much more akin to her previous rock-leaning effort Homebrew than her breakthrough Raw Like Sushi. The songs have an organic, earthy feel, in tune with the Lilith Fair alternative-style musical movement going on at the time. A good deal of alterna-sexual references are found, especially considering some of the song titles (first single “Kootchi” and “Beastiality,” to mention two). A solid album, but definitely not very commercial. Still, it should have been given a chance in the U.S. market, especially given her previous track record. Review by Jose F. Promis, Allmusic.com Tracklist:

Question: Manchild and Buffalo Stance were hits for which singer
Answer: Neneh Cherry